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Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein has broken his silence to deny he threatened to “kill” actress Salma Hayek.

Hayek became the latest Hollywood star to accuse the movie mogul of sexual harassment, labeling him a “monster” in an article for the New York Times.

She wrote: “Harvey Weinstein was a passionate cinephile, a risk taker, a patron of talent in film, a loving father and a monster. For years, he was my monster.”

In the newspaper, which first published allegations about Weinstein in October this year, Ms Hayek describes years of harassment by the man behind films such as The English Patient, Pulp Fiction and Shakespeare in Love.

On one occasion, she claims he even threatened to kill her, saying: “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t.”

Actress Salma Hayek (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Official denial

Holly Baird, a spokeswoman for Weinstein said the disgraced producer said “all of the sexual allegations as portrayed by Salma are not accurate”.

“Mr. Weinstein does not recall pressuring Salma to do a gratuitous sex scene with a female costar and he was not there for the filming,” said the spokesperson in a statement to Us Weekly.

“However, that was part of the story, as Frida Kahlo was bisexual and the more significant sex scene in the movie was choreographed by Ms. Hayek with Geoffrey Rush.”

The statement continued: “All of the sexual allegations as portrayed by Salma are not accurate and others who have witnessed the event have a different account of what transpired.”

Asked to take showers in front of him

The harassment allegedly began when she approached Weinstein about producing a film on the life of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo.

“I had started a journey to produce the film with a different company, but I fought to get it back to take it to Harvey”, she wrote.

“I knew him a little bit through my relationship with the director Robert Rodriguez and the producer Elizabeth Avellan, who was then his wife, with whom I had done several films and who had taken me under their wing.

“Knowing what I know now, I wonder if it wasn’t my friendship with them — and Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney — that saved me from being raped”, she added.

In return for him agreeing to do the film, she described how he would turn up at her hotel rooms wherever she was filming and ask to watch her take a shower, ask to give her a massage or try and persuade her to get naked with another woman.

Hayek wrote: “Harvey Weinstein was a passionate cinephile, a risk taker, a patron of talent in film, a loving father and a monster.

“For years, he was my monster.”

Refusing Harvey

The actress refused to do any of his demands, eventually having a breakdown on set.

She said: “He had said yes. Little did I know it would become my turn to say no.”

She believes a lack of equality in the film industry in behind the success of “predators” such as Weinstein.

She added:”Until there is equality in our industry, with men and women having the same value in every aspect of it, our community will continue to be a fertile ground for predators.”

Weinstein, 65, has “unequivocally denied” all allegations of non-consensual sex.

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